Time Out Chicago, 6/1/06
When Pulitzer Prize(winning journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in The New Yorker,
it became one of the biggest stories of the decade. In April he
continued to throw the Bush administration off its game by reporting on
its plans to bomb Iran over the Iranians’ ongoing refusal to open up
their nuclear program to international inspectors. The dogged reporter,
who will speak at the Midwest Light of Human Rights Awards on Wednesday
7, talks about the Iraq War, journalism school and why the President
could use a history lesson. [read more]